mes up the stair.

--_Burns._

N

1423

For art may err, but nature cannot miss.

--_J. Dryden._

1424

Our nature exists by motion; perfect rest is death.

1425

Good-nature, like a bee, collects honey from every herb. Ill-nature,
like a spider, sucks poison from the sweetest flower.

1426

Good-nature is the beauty of the mind, and, like personal beauty, wins
almost without anything else.

--_Hanway._

1427

If you want to keep your good looks, keep your good nature.

1428

NATURE.

No ordinance of man shall override
The settled laws of nature and of God;
Not written these in pages of a book,
Nor were they framed to-day, nor yesterday;
We know not whence they are; but this we know,
That they from all eternity have been,
And shall to all eternity endure.

--_Sophocles, born 495 B. C._

1429

Every one follows the inclinations of his own nature.

--_Propertius._

1430

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the universe, and feel
What I am can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.

--_Lord Byron._

1431

Who can paint
Like nature? Can imagination boast,
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

--_J. Thomson._

1432

Tender handed stroke a nettle
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains;
Thus it is with vulgar natures,
Use them kindly, they rebel:
But be rough as nutmeg graters,
And the rogues obey you well.

--_Aaron Hill._

1433

Where is there a sharper arrow than the sting of unmerited neglect?

1434

'Tis wisely said
To know thyself: equally profitable it is
To know thy neighb